Numbers 11

So when things are cross, or strange, God's own people are apt to question, how they should be brought about with success. Moses, who was a man of God, and one of the brightest stars that ever shined in the firmament of God's Church, yet he was apt to be discouraged with seeming…

Christ had as much ado to raise her faith, as to raise her dead brother. And Moses, though a holy man, yet limits God's power through unbelief (Numbers 11:21). The people among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen, and you have said I will give them flesh for a whole mont…

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am in the midst of them. 5. God bears his children in his bosom, as a nursing father does the sucking child (Numbers 11:12; Isaiah 46:4). To be carried in God's bosom shows how near his children lie to his heart.

God let her have a child, but it cost her her life (Genesis 35:18). Israel not content with manna (angels' food) they must have quails to their manna, God punished them by letting them have their will (Numbers 11:31): There went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails; an…

Now their courage must not be a proud haughtiness, or an indiscreet cruelty; but a godly boldness, which may enable them to the duties of their calling, without fear of man. To this end, the Lord put of his spirit upon the seventy, which were to rule with Moses, Numbers 11.17. N…

And Joseph in Egypt in the years of plenty stored up against the years of famine. Wherefore in these words our Savior his meaning is only to condemn all distrustful care that distracts the minds of men, and to teach us to rest on his fatherly goodness from day to day in every se…

It was the great sin of Israel in the wilderness, that though God had delivered them from their cruel servitude in Egypt, miraculously fed them in the desert, and was leading them on to a land flowing with milk and honey; yet as soon as any want did but begin to pinch them, pres…

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Thus Iosua would have excluded Eldad and Medad from prophesying, and he would have Moses to be the onely prophet: but Moses says, I would to God all the people could prophecie. Num 11:29. Iohns disciples would have excluded Christ baptising: but John says, He must increase, and…

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Section 10. The first considerable thing in God's command to this purpose is the authority with which it is accompanied — it is indispensably necessary that we should be holy on account of the authority of God's command; God himself uses this argument (Malachi 1:6), and there ar…

Winds are said sometimes to come from God; as (Exodus 10:13) the Lord brought an East wind upon the land of Egypt that it was covered with locusts, (one of the plagues of Egypt,) and verse 19, the Lord turned a mighty West wind which took away the locusts. And (Numbers 11:31) th…

Their greater Sanhedrin was their Supreme Court of Judicature, and consisted of seventy Elders, besides their chief Speaker or Moderator. You will find their first institution to have been by Divine Authority (Numbers 11:16). They sat only in Jerusalem; their sentence was decisi…

Under the Old Testament, but few had such honors put upon them by God. Moses wished that all the Lord's people were prophets, Numbers 11:29; whereas Joshua thought it much that Eldad and Medad prophesied. But now we find the wish of Moses fulfilled.

Thus it was with the rich fool, when he began to sing lullabies to his soul, and enjoy what he had got, he is taken away by death (Luke 12:20): You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be which you have provided? And it is said (Numb…

Private spirits, that would impale and enclose religion, that they may shine alone, they do not love God, but themselves, their own credit, and their own profit. Would to God all the Lord's people were prophets! (Numbers 11:29). That was a free and noble speech.

The Lord may give a man riches and not love him: his prosperity may be as Israels Quails sawced with Gods wrath. Numbers 11:32, 33. But when God says, ye are mine, he cannot but love; every one loves his own. If God has any love better than other, his Covenant-People shall have…

1. Then the sinfulness of sin not only appears by, but consists in this, that it is contrary to God, yes, contrariety and enmity itself in the very abstract: Carnal men, or sinners, are called by the name of enemies to God (Romans 5:8, 10; Colossians 1:21), but the carnal mind o…

And that was it that magnified Abrahams faith so, that when there was so great difficulty that he must goe and offer his sonne, the sonne in whom GOD had promised that his seede should be blessed, who was called the sonne of the promise: Now here was a great degree of faith, bec…

He has low thoughts of God; he slights his sovereignty, questions his truth, looks upon all Gods Promises as a forged deed. The sinner therefore is said to despise God, Numbers 11.20. Again, the sinner lessens God, and brings him low in the thoughts of others.